Polyvinyl Records is launching a new singles series next year, it's called the Polyvinyl 4-Track Singles Series, and it's available to a limited audience of 500 people. Find out how to subscribe and who's involved.

In a digital world where things turn over quickly as an audience hell-bent on finding the next new thing moves to the next bright shiny object, Turntable.FM is turning the tide to create a new music service: Turntable Live.

Kim Dotcom is famous for launching revolutionary products that the industry loves to hate and music fans love to love. Now he's launching a music service to take on Spotify and iTunes. It's called Baboom.

The mix of musical elements that the The Notwist are playing these days includes tags like electronic, indie rock, indie pop, cinematic, and ambient, but the best description would probably include all of those words and more.

The mix of musical elements that the The Notwist are playing these days includes tags like electronic, indie rock, indie pop, cinematic, and ambient, but the best description would probably include all of those words and more.

Given that Google is way in on this wearable tech thing with Google Glass, and they're way into the music thing with Google Play, YouTube, the whole YouTube Music Awards ... and, well, everything else that they do; it was only a matter of time before Google Glass and music crossed paths.

So you're starting a band ... big dreams and bigger music. What are you going to call yourself? The name is ultra-important -- it defines you before people even hear your music, giving a first impression to people.

The upcoming Sparklehorse and Mark Linkous tribute album Last Box of Sparklers is looking for funding via Indiegogo, and has started a fundraising campaign. Find out more and see who's contributing to the album.

Rhapsody Music has created a new mobile app for an online streaming radio service called Rhapsody Radio with the well-known group The Echo Nest. It’s available now for Android, iPhone and iPad. Find out more.

If you're making a music app, consider making an Android app before an iOS app for iPhone and iPad. Most go for iOS first and make an Android app later, some choosing skip the Android App or Windows phone app altogether. This is probably a mistake.

Instagram and SoundCloud are partnering to combine online picture hosting with online storage of sounds for musicians. Kaskade and Krewella are doing it, find out how they use Instagram photos in their SoundCloud songs.

deadmau5 and Astralwerks are tapping into their histories of backing electronic music and looking forward to working together to release not only new deadmau5 recordings, but the recordings from Mau5trap Recordings.

CMJ was one of the first to
champion the multi-club, urban setting music festival
that we see today in SXSW. They claim over 90,000 people attend the CMJ Marathon -- it has all the requisite stuff like panels, guest speakers, film festival, and lots of music.

Matthew Houck is taking his Phosphorescent album Muchacho one step further by giving it a deluxe edition on Dead Oceans. The deluxe version includes a live performance at St. Pancras Church in London. Get the details on tour information + preview a track.

It's almost time for the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, the intersection of New York's coolest borough and the heady electronic music genre. Get the full details on BEMF 2013 lineup, tickets and dates.

Life in the world of the music cloud ... there's so many great features ... and problems too. If the cloud #fails, your music or anything else stored there is temporarily inaccessible. But what happens when your purchased tracks go missing never to return?

It comes as no surprise that Robert Pollard is releasing a new album. In his long and storied career as a member of Guided By Voices and also his own solo efforts, the man has literally been machine-like in cranking out indie rock music with amazing prolificness.

The cliche about Canada is that it's a stable country with boring, polite people. That is, except for Godspeed! You Black Emperor, who've won Canada's Polaris Music Prize for the best album of the past year.

Because 9/9 isn't just Arcade Fire Day, it's Arcade Fire Week, here's your daily dose of Arcade Fire news: Win Butler wrevealed in an interview some of the secrets about why the album became a double album.

Today is the day: 9/9 a.k.a. Arcade Fire day, or the day new Arcade Fire Album Reflektor gets it first sample with a new song delivered in a video directed by Anton Corbijn. A tour and tickets should follow soon.

The iTunes Radio release date is upon us, with the iTunes Radio app out this week with the new iOS 7 and upgraded Siri. It’s a great way to listen to free streaming music online and the iTunes Radio vs Pandora Radio battle will heat up in coming months.

British electronic music nightclub label Ministry Of Sound has sued streaming music service Spotify for copyright infringement based on Spotify playlists that reproduce MoS compilations. It's at the heart of the electronic music remix culture as well as streaming music services that allow flexibility in how we listen.

Spotify wants in on the idea behind the Apple Airplay app, so they've created their own technology called Spotify Connect. It's a way of using Spotify as a platform for connecting your smart phones and tablet computers to your home stereo speakers, seamlessly.

The Affliction broadly covers a wasteland of emotions, and though most of the members of the band are in stable relationships or marriages, they prove uncannily able to identify with being alone, isolated, and thoroughly depressed.

Get excited for the launch of iTunes Radio: Apple has filed a patent for live listening. It's easy to see how this could tie into iTunes Radio. With the upcoming new iPhone event in September, the timing of this patent weighs in on the iPhone 5s release date, the new iOS7 and iTunes Radio.

This infographic breaks out the scene into categories and big names like Youtube, MP3 download, iTunes, Myspace, Rhapsody, Streaming Radio and more to show us how the field stacks up. Which ones do you use?

Big Data mining at its best: music on mobile phones gets almost half as much use as streaming radio does overall. This means Spotify and free MP3 downloads are still used less than streaming radio, whether that's AM and FM or online-only radio stations.

The upcoming reissue of Nirvana's classic album In Utero for its 20th anniversary will include a new song never released before. The song is called Forgotten Tune, find out the release date and details.

Pandora Radio and Spotify are relying on the “Field of Dreams” platform: build an audience and profits will come. But that business model is designed to work for technology startups expanding into new markets—not a digital music service trying to expand within a declining industry.

YouTube is opening live streaming to any channels with 100 subscribers or more, so even if you're not a YouTube Partner you can get in on live streaming YouTube music videos like live performances or interactive live video sessions. Find out more.

The Fun Fun Fun Fest has emerged to be a yearly staple in the Austin music scene. It offers punk/hardcore, indie rock, hip hop/DJ, and comedy acts for a fun fun fun time. It's centered around independent music, creativity, and progressive music.

New from Google is Chromecast, a low-cost way of getting Netflix, Pandora Radio, YouTube and more streaming music and videos on your TV via your mobile devices or computer. It’s part of the Google TV expansion that’s underway and includes Play Music as well and more as part of a package that’s meant to compete with Apple TV.

Crystal Stilts will bring their own brand of noisy, jangly and fuzzy indie pop to us once again with new music in September. The new song “Star Crawl” is a great example of what the band does well: laid-back, slow-ride garage indie rock with a sharp edge and lots of reverb.

Trent Reznor unloaded four new Nine Inch Nails albums for Hesitation Marks first on Twitter, then on the band's website. Check out the albums, new Nine Inch Nails songs, and tour information on the NIN live experience for the Summer of 2013.

Now that Sonic Youth is on permanent vacation, Kim Gordon is focusing on Body/Head, the crazy/great/new music project she's doing with Bill Nace. They just announced a new set of tour dates in support of their debut album Coming Apart.

Neil Young’s hi-def music service, Pono, may be nearing completion, but only time will tell whether it can live up to its goal: to “rescue an art form” and revolutionize the way people experience music.

The Italian electronic music label Bosconi is doing a five-year retrospective of their house and techno take on the scene -- it happens in a series of four EPs and a larger mix, or you could go for the limited edition box set.

The latest news and rumors on the Apple iPad 5 release date move towards an October release. There also looks to be a lot of new Apple products with new features, so an iPad 5 release should be part of the new “army” of products. Whether a new iPad 5 price arrives is certain to be subject of many iPad rumors and news in the coming months.

Trent Reznor talks on the new Nine Inch Nails album Hesitation Marks, Adrian Belew's departure, new NIN songs from the upcoming LP and discusses EVERYTHING with Kevin & Bean from the Los Angeles CBS Radio station Modern Rock KROQ.

Those of us looking forward to a new Arcade Fire album have another new thing to consider in the run up to an album release: Revolt Magazine is dropping word today of the new Arcade Fire album release date.

Experimental Indie pop band múm return after a four-year hiatus with their upcoming album Smilewound. The Icelandic collective is roaring back with a new single for the song 'Toothwheels' which is out now.

Get the DL on the 2013 Bonnaroo lineup and tickets, as well as Bonnaroo live stream and webcast information. Find out the aftershows lineup and get the live feed on Bonnaroo for 2013. Find out more about tickets being sold out and where to watch the 2013 Bonnaroo live stream webcast.

Those of you waiting on the new Arcade Fire album have a juicy morsel to chew on today: James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem who's been producing the new album, has weighed in with thoughts on how it's going.

The iTunes Radio launch happened today at the WWDC, with the rumored iRadio app turning out with the name iTunes Radio. The download was announced as a streaming music service that arrives with the new iOS. Also in are iOS updates for the iPhone and iPad.

Queens of The Stone Age released their album ... Like Clockwork last week with a lot of media noise -- they’ve just expanded the tour dates in support of ... Like Clockwork to include European and North American shows, and the tour is massive.

Two new things to know about the lo-fi, shoegazey electronic music act Tropic of Cancer: The duo of Juan Mendez and Camella Lobo is now just a one-person act with Camella Lobo, and a new Tropic of Cancer release is happening this Summer with an advance single. Score!

Slacker Radio has a new Engagement Quotient ... tech speak for a metric to measure how much we dig or don't dig the song we're streaming on Slacker. It's a new big data feature meant to measure what kind of an experience we're having with Slacker Radio and whether it's blowing our minds or letting us down.

There's a new Clark remix compilation coming called Feast/Beast. It will include Clark's remix of his song 'Suns of Temper,' you can check out the Bear Paw Kicks version after the jump. Also in on the remixes: Bibio and Nathan Fake.

The new Nine Inch Nails future is OUT, and here's the skinny: the new Nine Inch Nails album is called Hesitation Marks, there's also the new song 'Came Back Haunted' and a whole bunch of new tour dates with Godspeed You! Black Emperor and EITS.

It’s probably no surprise that they’ve launched this prior to Apple’s developer conference (WWDC) next week where Apple is supposed to drop the new Apple iRadio and could even launch new Apple TV with licensing from broadcast outlets. Just sayin.’

OG Napster ... the original P2P MP3 place-turned-music-streaming-site is getting ready to expand globally after a long quiet period. Napster has gone through a bit of a slumber while being passed from Roxio to Best Buy to Rhapsody, and now Rhapsody is ready to move Napster into a number of European countries, the domain of Deezer and Spotify.

The Primavera Sound 2013 live stream hits its final day today with Hot Chip, Simian Mobile Disco, Wu-Tang Clan, Dead Can Dance and more. The Primavera Sound live stream starts today at 1:00 PM EST, and you can watch it all weekend on our Primavera Sound Live Stream 2013 video feed.

Death Grips are doing a tour which includes dates in North America this Summer. The overall tour schedule includes stops at many music festivals and is in support their most recent release No Love Deep Web.

Post-rock-metal band Baroness survived their tour bus accident in Bath, England last year and had planned a new tour. They've just added to that set of shows, making it a comeback tour that's getting even bigger.

Superchunk will offer the flip side of their 2010 release Majesty Shredding on their newly announced I Hate Music. It’s due out on Aug.20th on Merge Records, and sees the band doing an album of darker music ...

Have you ever wanted to have one web site or web service to go to for all of the great music, videos and places you've found for music? Piki's new bookmarklet feature does just that on Pandora, Rdio, YouTube, SoundCloud, and of course the Piki creators own Turntable.FM, among others.

BitTorrent is looking to be a big AND legit distribution platform, and their new BitTorrent Bundles are part of that. Instead of thinking in terms of just the traditional album release, tour, album release cycle, they're offering the BitTorrent Bundle as a way to expand the idea of a release.

Indie pop band The Dodos have signed on to Polyvinyl Records for the release of their new album, which the just finished recording in San Francisco. In the meantime, check out The Dodos album preview, it includes one of the songs from the new album.

Small Black are set to release their new full length album Limits of Desire on May 14th, and they've just announced a set of tour dates for the release. Also check out their newly released song 'No Stranger.'

That new Boards Of Canada album? It just became official. It's called Tomorrow's Harvest and is due out on Warp Records, the band has a new web site at cosecha-transmisiones.com, and they aired a commercial on the Cartoon Network over the weekend. Good times.

The Hopscotch Music Festival unites the triangle of the Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill music scenes, long-standing contributors to the national music scene. This year, the festival lineup includes Spiritualized, The Breeders, John Cale, Matthew Dear and more. Tickets are on sale now.

The Knife definitely know how to go all out on a creative bender. Their new tour will include elements like an absurdist aerobics class called Deep Aerobics and Danceoke, DJ sets and steel band performance.

Man or Astro-Man are making a rebound after a 12-year hiatus with a new album called Defcon 5...4...3...2...1. The sometimes instrumental alternative band is part surf-rock, part indie rock and always exciting.

YouTube delivered a Playbook for Musicians last week, with words on how to deliver your videos in a way that people can find them. Cutting through the noise is tough on YouTube ... find out how to get found.

Twitter Music has gone live! They're actually calling it Twitter #Music, it's a free app with all things music that focuses on artists and people you follow. It's at music.twitter.com and works with iTunes, Spotify or Rdio as a supporting music service.

Indie pop band Rogue Wave are takin' to the road in support of their new album Nightingale Floors. They'll hit cities in the US only, excepting Toronto and Vancouver, and will make stops at places like The Independent in San Francisco (2 shows) The Black Cat in Washington DC, The Bowery Ballroom in New York and Neumos in Seattle.

Move over Iceland Airwaves, All Tomorrow's Parties is setting up in your town. They're skipping the musical hotbed of Reykjavik to settle in at Keflavík, and have already named Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as The All Tomorrow's Parties Iceland headliner.

If this had rolled out on Apr. 1, there would be no question that Napster.FM had to be a prank. Instead, Napster.FM streams music along with the chat, Hot List and user features that the OG Napster once had.

Tour dates have been unloaded for New York's Mercury Lounge as well as the Cameo Lounge in Brooklyn, Austin, Chicago, and even a run up the west coast with stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.

Andy Cato has been working on solo album. For 12 years. It's something that he always moved back to, in no hurry to complete, more an effort of just writing music over time and putting it aside. Now that will all be released as the album Times & Places.

Any music or news fan using Twitter to stay on the pulse will be excited to find out that it's going to get even bigger with the launch of the new Twitter music app this week. They're giving a dedicated location: music.twitter.com and early reports are saying it's an iOS-only device (read: iPad and iPhone), but take a trip their on your computer and you'll find a spot reserved for it as a twitter music page.

The Terror takes the awesomely big Flaming Lips persona and moves it firmly into new and more experimental territory ... they've moved to the dark side. It's not a downer, either ... they haven't removed any of the elements that made their music great over the years. The Terror is built on similar foundations to Yoshimi, The Soft Bulletin, any of the classics. The filter is different though, they've portrayed it in a completely different way.

The third and final day of Coachella weekend one. Things to look forward to today on the Coachella 2013 live stream include performances from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dinosaur Jr., the mind-blowing Eric Prydz, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Pretty Lights, Tame Impala and more. The live stream kicks off at 3:30 PST, and as always you can watch the Coachella live stream via our Coachella Video Channel.

Day two of the first Coachella weekend for the year ... yesterday was spectacular with performances from How to Destroy Angels, Grinderman, Beach House and more. Saturday looks just as good or better with New Order, Moby, Phoenix, The Postal Service, The Descendents and more. Watch the Coachella live stream to see video of any of these performances, it has three different channels running at the same time.
Check out the schedule of set times in the lineup.

It's that time! Get the 411 on Coachella lineup and tickets, plus live stream and webcast information. Find pool parties and Coachella after parties in Palm Springs and around Los Angeles. Get the live feed on Coachella for this weekend.

They're promising a focus on the things that made Skinny Puppy great for the album Weapon: electro, new wave, industrial, and rock to make the distinctive and immediately identifiable Skinny Puppy sound.

The White Stripes Nation will love this ... a new Third Man Records vault package has been announced for the tenth anniversary of their album Elephant, with three items: a live White Stripes performance called Nine Miles From The White City, a 7" with unreleased demo recordings, and a photo book about the band's classic album Elephant.

Matador Records is EXTREMELY excited to say that Ted & The Pharmacists are doing a "BONA FIDE, ALL-TOO-RARE" tour, even if it's a short week of shows at the end of July. No Aimee Mann, no Ted Leo solo, the full meal deal: Ted & The Pharmacists.

Indie pop sensation Ra Ra Riot are touring starting with a few dates this month and picking up momentum in May, when they'll do a month-long run of shows including bands like The Shins, Lighthouse and the Whaler and Speak, later shows include Bjork, Feist and Broken Social Scene.

Add Mom + Pop Music to the list of record labels going full-on into a subscription service in 2013 ... they're going with the popular Drip.fm service to offer up a service called Boombox that will deliver all sorts of vinyl and downloads to you every month, including subscription-only exclusives.

The Lollapalooza lineup announcement for 2013 arrives tomorrow. There's been a lot of Lollapalooza lineup rumors in recent days, and it appears the the leaked lineup is the official Lollapalooza 2013 lineup. Check out who's in and who the Lollapalooza 2013 headliners are, and how to find tickets.

The gloriously epic Ultra Music Festival has drawn to a close, ending two weekends of non-stop partying, music and partying ... maybe you're even still in Miami. Maybe you caught (and still can) coverage on our video channel that's running Ultra Music Festival 2013 videos. This was the first year that the Ultra Music Festival ran for two weekends, and it looks like it might be the last.

Jim Eno from Spoon has made a name for himself not only through his band but also for his recording chops and producing skills, working with bands like !!! and Telekinesis, among others from his home studio of the same name in Austin, Texas. He's decided to do the full monty and and do up a full recording label ...

Glastonbury is one of the biggest and oldest festivals on the planet, and still completely relevant today. The lineup is lead with The Rolling Stones, Mumford & Sons, Primal Scream, Portishead, The xx, PiL, Public Enemy, Crystal Castles, Frightened Rabbit, Local Natives .... Check out the entire line IN FULL, complete with stages and set times.

It's an underground music story for sure ... straight out of the music mecca of Chapel Hill, NC, Heather McEntire (Bellafea) and Jenks Miller (Horseback) got together as Mount Moriah as way to escape the trappings of their current bands.

Post-rock Los Angeles band El-Ten Eleven have gone through the unfortunate experience of having their gear ripped off ... and not just stolen but stolen just as they were headed out on tour. The band will still tour and is looking for any information on the list of things ...

The Shins are rolling out on a May tour that jumps all over North America. James Mercer, the troubador of all things Shins carries the new band forward in suppot of their most recent album Port Of Morrow.

Electronic music duo Justice are known for making their electro meets house meets rock sound aesthetic thump like rock n' roll, while mainting their electronic music bona fides at the same time. It should be no surprise then that they're releasing a live album that does just that, called Access All Arenas.

It's time for the Lollapalooza ticket freakout ... Lollapalooza 2013 tickets are about to go on sale and they'll go fast. These are the Lollapalooza early bird tickets, offering fans a limited amount of tickets for $200 before they hit the real price of $235.

Warp Records also has a highly influential arm known as Warp Films, who makes idealized indie films. They're releasing a new Stone Roses documentary called Stone Roses: Made of Stone on May 30th with a will run in a group of 100 movie houses via satellite link on June 5.

Quite possibly the best way to starts a week: Echo and the Bunnymen have a new album on the way called The Garden of Meedin, and it promises a return to the post-punk roots that the band was founded on, spiky and angular guitar sounds and all.

It's time for the Saturday lineup for the Ultra Music Festival 2013 live stream, and the schedule looks deep with Deadmau5, Fatboy Slim, Rusko, Carl Cox and Richie Hawtin. Yesterday, the UMF live stream started weekend two with sets from Eric Prydz, Tiesto, Martin Solveig and more.

Check in on the 2013 Ultra Music Festival live stream and webcast information, as well as lineup and tickets. Find out where the UMF pool parties and Ultra Music Festival after parties. Get the live feed on the Ultra Music Festival for 2013 and learn where to get tickets.

One thing to look forward to for this weekend's Ultra Music Festival: Carl Craig will be performing live at a Boiler room / Red Bull Music Academy live event showcase, along with Jamie XX and more. As for the Ultra Music Festival 2013 Live Stream, we'll be running it on Spacelab all weekend long.

Place this in the believe it when you see it category: Amazon is supposedly looking into starting a streaming music service with a subscription, akin to the same rumors we've heard about Apple and Google or YouTube. This also could mean trouble for Spotify, Pandora, the forthcoming Beats / Daisy, Rdio and all the others that have staked out their future on exactly this kind of streaming music service subscription model.

And the savagery may continue. Manchester/London based post-punk band Savages have brought their riotous sound to Matador Records, and will release their debut full-length album Silence Yourself on a combination of Matador Records and the band's own Pop Noire label. Check out a new song from the album.

Further proof that the new Arcade Fire album is alive and well and still happening with James Murphy at DFA Studio ... The DFA Studio Twitter confirms that band is still there and is recording the follow-up the massively popular and Grammy-winning album The Suburbs.

The poor guys in electectic indie band Efterklang were welcomed to a late-Winter snowfall in Minnesota this week, travelling from Fargo to Minneapolis while being forced to cancel their show at the fantastic Cedar Cultural Center due to impassible roads in the Minnesota outback.

Sigur Ros may be down to only three original members right now, but their sound and live experience looks more charged than ever. They just released a video preview of the upcoming Sigur Ros tour, with that fantastic rolling thunder bassline and a mention that they'll be touring as an eleven-piece band.

The new list of Atoms For Peace tour dates includes stops in major hubs like New York Chicago and Los Angeles, but the shows don't start until the end of September, leaving the band open for a slew of music festivals should they choose to play them.

Anyone hoping to catch the upcoming Animal Collective shows might have to wait for the rescheduled shows ... Avy Tare is struggling with "an intense case of strep throat" that has forced the band to reschedule shows.

The ever-popular Pukkelpop Festival has announced its first wave lineup with Nine Inch Nails, The xx, Eminem and Neil Young & Crazy Horse at the top of the lineup. Tickets go on sale next week, check out the complete lineup announcement and ticket details.

The Sunday Ultra Music Festival 2013 live stream is better than yesterday: check the UMF live stream schedule then watch the live feed broadcast here on Spacelab. It includes Bassnectar, Steve Aoki, Zedd and even some promised footage of Skrillex and more.

Get the DL on the 2013 Ultra Music Festival lineup and tickets, as well as live stream and webcast information. Find pool parties and UMF after parties. Get the live feed on the Ultra Music Festival for 2013. Find out more about tickets being sold out and the Bayfront venue.

If you layered some jazz basslines, wandering funk harmonies, and modern keys in an indie rock setting, you’d end up with something like Throw Vision. The LP, called In I, is a beautiful debut album fueled by gorgeous vocals, powerful lyrics, vocals and melodies, admirable group dynamics and clever songwriting.

2013 is the year of the video channel, and just announced is the new MOX TV, who have been offering their EDM take on music via MOX.TV for a while now, and are refocusing and redoubling around a launch that coincides with the Ultra Music Festival in Miami that kicks off this week.

Sometimes the right room and the right vibe can make an ok jam into a special listening pleasure. The best cut might be from Trent Reznor and his piece "Mantra," which also features Joshua Homme (QOTSA) and it makes me look forward to new NIN music. The rest of the album is sort of forgettable in that it sounds like a 90's retrospective. This isn't a bad thing, but the tunes blend together after a couple listens, without many WOW moments.

He's just added more dates and will be on the road until the end of May in support of his latest album, the mind-blowing Until The Quiet Comes. The show even includes his "Layer 3" visuals: a three-dimensional projection that syncs with the music (watch the video).

Red Bull wants to do more than give wings to your music tech startup -- it wants to accelerate your startup. It announced today the launch of "Red Bull Amplifier," a chance for you to tap into Red Bull's massive audience via social media channels and its popular Red Bull website.

The 2013 Ultra Music Festival live stream has been announced and will go live over both weekends. We'll be running it here on Spacelab via the Ultra Music Festival Video Channel, with the live stream event happening as well as plenty of videos from past festivals. Find out more.

Kinski are ready to roll this month with a set of tour dates that run into April and feature stops at Austin's SXSW Music Festival to kick the whole thing off. What's more ... Kinski have started the Whiskey with Kinski contest to give someone a a free show, a few rounds of whiskey and a copy of the album.

Google has the world's most popular music streaming service in YouTube, and a dedicated streaming music service would be a cool product to add -- giving people the ability to customize and curate music streams. Plus all the cool kids are doing it (Spotify, Apple, Pandora , Beats et al) So why shouldn't YouTube get in on that action?

Proto-noise punks METZ just released a new video today with the song "Wasted," and now they've announced a set of tour dates in the Spring that add to a long, long schedule of existing dates. They'll be at SXSW Music for a number of shows, plus Primavera Sound Festival, Field Day Festival and Iceland Airwaves Festival as well.

It's time for your next bottle of Trick-ola cola. Long time electronic music pioneer an Massive Attack alumni Tricky has announced a new album and recording label. He's stopped trying to fulfill others expectations and just set out to make the music that comes naturally to him. This is what he did on the legendary Maxinquaye, perhaps his best known album.

The influence of today's 90s-nostalgia may have crept into Moore's songwriting, or maybe the climate of thousands of DIY noise freaks with Bandcamp pages sending out feedback fried streams inspired him to plug in and jam recklessly. Who the F cares, this is a damn fine record.

Kickstarter has been used a lot over the past year, from Amanda Palmer to Bjork to Bob Mould, but it actually fails to work for most that use it. Find out where Kickstarter works well and where it doesn't --- the answer will surprise you.

Jamie Lidell, Matthew Herbert and Andy Stott are part of the first wave of announcements for Montreal's techno heaven, the Mutek Festival. Tickets are on sale, find out more and see the complete lineup so far.

This could be a prediction into what Spotify sees about its future: it wants to keep the paid subscription but is realizing that without a broad base of free service, people will stop using it after the free trial is over.

The Postal Service have added to their growing list of previously announced tour dates, adding shows throughout the Summer way into July. They're doing shows with BATHS and Yacht depending on location, and will be at both Coachella and the Sasquatch! Music Festival.

If you dig electronic music like Amon Tobin, Daedelus and Illumsphere, you might be happy to find out that all of the vinyl that was lost in the Sony warehouse fire in 2011 will again be reissued based on demand.

Mudhoney will release their album Vanishing Point on April 1/2 via Sub Pop Records, and now we have an announced tour schedule from the band that sees them playing shows in major cities in the U.S. and Europe.

Jimmy Iovine thinks that algorithms and listening history and social network recommendations fall short because they end up being so random, where like-minded interests can recommend a song based on human insight, not ones and zeroes guessing at what to deliver.

Building on the success of last year's Coexist (and a recently completed sold out tour), The xx are touring this Summer with Grizzly Bear. The tour starts with a number odf shows with Austra this month.

This is how modern songwriting happens ... Sit down with Google and find some fucked up subject matter. Its fascinating to think that Cave just sits around and follows links - bouncing around the Internet from sick disease pics, to the history of the Black Plague, to Robert Johnson, to dabbling in porno, reading the NY Times, and flipping though red carpet photos...is this rock 'n' roll?

The Philadelphia phenom Kurt Vile is readying his next installment on Matador Records ... the much acclaimed singer-songwriter has a new album and has offered up the the first advance song with "Walkin On A Pretty Day," as an MP3.

It seems like just yesterday that Sub Pop was cranking out Tad, Mudhoney and Nirvana albums ... now it's ready turn the BIG 25. They have a lot of big events happening, including a compilation titled Sub Pop 1000, which arrives on 4/20, Record Store Day.

It's a project that's been in existence for a while now -- it was meant to be the follow up release to Copia, but instead it was put in the vault while Matthew Cooper a.k.a. Elvium cranked out Similies.

It's the story that won't go away ... first the USB stick release for Valentines Day inside of an anatomically correct chocolate heart. But the bigger emerging news / rumor / Twitter fascination is that the Flaming Lips will release a collaborative album that is a complete working over of The Stone Roses debut album ... to be followed by a number of events.

Apparat and Modeselektor ... like chocolate and peanut butter. Together they make Moderat, the electronic music innovators that are bringing us their next album, not so innovatively titled II. But who cares about the title? It's Moderat, baby!

Sam Beam returns with Iron and Wine this Spring with an album titled Ghost on Ghost. He's looking for a smoother approach this time around, calling his last two efforts an exercise in "anxious tension."

Experimental, darkwave and dark synthpop fans can get psyched over the fact that new music from Cold Cave is happening ... the Cold Cave Oceans With No End EP has been announced and will be released on Deathwish Records. Industrial and late 80's dark new wave are the influences here, and if you dig The Knife, Fever Ray, or any of the early Nine Inch Nails back catalog this is right up your alley.

They broke out of past songwriting and album recording processes by getting the whole !!! tribe together to go into the studio with songs already developed and structured. This allowed them to focus on other things in the recording studio.

Indie Pop band Surfer Blood will release a new album titled Pythons this Summer. No official release date has been announced yet, but they have offered up the first song from the album with "Weird Shapes." It has Black Francis-Pixies-Doolittle type scream-outs in it, a nice spin the alternative/indie pop vibe of the song.

Sub Pop band/guy Father John Misty is going on tour this Spring in support of his album Fear Fun. Tour dates are underway now and wind out through June, and include stops at the Coachella Music Festival and a show with White Fence at the legendary Fillmore in San Francisco.

It's been 10 full years since Portland post-punks The Thermals released their first Sub Pop album More Parts Per Million. To celebrate (READ: ca$h in) they're reissuing the album plus all of their others.

Although words like INSANE, EPIC and AMAZING are too often used to describe the mundane ... they all seem to do justice to the Coachella lineup for 2013. The long list includes Bassnectar, Descendents, DIIV, Dino Jr, Four Tet, How to Destroy Angels, Japandroids, Modest Mouse, New Order, Sigur Rós, Spiritualized, The Postal Service and whole lot more. Blur, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Stones Roses and Phoenix are all headliners.

We all know that Bob Pollard doesn't stop when he gets going on songwriting, and it looks like that's being applied to the reunited Guided By Voices as well. The OG GBV will release English Little League.

Sigur Rós are doing a Reddit AMA live q&a session today at 3 PM EST today to "ask the band whatever you want" knowing that sometimes interviews are not always the band's forte -- they've been known to offer very short responses to questions.

Kim Dotcom and his partners have set out here to make sure that they're not legally liable for anything that happens with Mega with the sharing of copyrighted material ... which means it's on you, buddy. If you get caught distributing copyrighted music on Mega, you're responsible for your actions and the fuzz and copyright holder will knock on your door, not Dotcom's.

Wire hit Rockfield Studios in Wales to look at releasing some old material that had been played in shows but never was released. Rather than just lift the old songs and record them, the band decided to use them as a template for evolution of the music. What emerged are the songs on Change Becomes Us.

Sam Fogarino of Interpol is moving forward with a new project called EmptyMansions ... there's a new album titled snakes/vultures/sulfate coming out sometime in April on Riot House Records. Check out the Thurston Moore-influenced vocals on the song "Lyra."

If you're a band with music on Bandcamp, you'll dig this. If you use Bandcamp to find and buy music, you'll dig this even more. A feature launched last year called "Bandcamp for Fans" has had a major overhaul that creates dedicated fan blogs -- i.e. a social feature that lets people create an account a share music on the Bandcamp site. The big story is that it's not the "frictionless sharing" that dominated streaming music services in 2012 but rather the "high friction" approach that seems destined to be a big part of social music in 2013.

Electronic pop band Young Galaxy announced a brand new, full-length album called Ultramarine, their first new album since Shapeshifting in 2011 and a promising bunch of new tracks. Check out an advance sample.

Animal Collective are starting off 2013 right with a big set of fresh tour dates, set to roll across Australia, North America and stops at the Roskilde Festival and Treefort Music Festival. They're bringing labelmate Dan Deacon with them ... so this should be a weirdo good time as far as experimental sounds.

Yo La Tengo's new album isn't likely to disappoint longtime fans, but it isn't the type of record that will excite too many critics or casual streamers. When it comes down to it, I love the first song and tolerate the rest.

Rhapsody is expanding its streaming music service globally, making it available in 16 new countries in Europe. This should make them competitive with Spotify and other streaming music sites, considering they already boast about 1 million paid subscribers.

Tom Van Buskirk and George Langford have been living a rock and roll fantasy in New York. Signed to both David Byrne's Luka Bop Records, they're set to release a new album called Hi Beams. Also check out an MP3 of the song "Nnormal."

Experimental indie band Fol Chen is launching into an entire new band in 2013, with the addition of vocalist Sinosa Loa and a new album titled The False Alarm on Asthmatic Kitty Records. Check out the MP3 of the song "200 Words."

New music arrives from Telekinesis (a.k.a. Michael Benjamin Lerner) this Spring with the album Dormarion, his third album for Merge Records. Self-described as a minimalist, Telekinesis has a sort of indie pop-leaning sound with some similarity to the Elephant 6 Collective bands. Find out more and check out advance music.

The worst of all news for anyone who has seen the Flaming Lips play live ... the massive hands that Wayne Coyne wears that shoot lasers -- were stolen. So this all begs the question ... how do you sell a pair of gian hands with lasers in them?

That incredible Daft Punk / Nile Rodgers collaboration we've been hearing about over the past year looks like it will see the light of day this year. Nile Rodgers took to his blog to say that he's expecting a big year, and that it "won't be boring."

Ceremony, The Fresh and Onlys, Sonny & The Sunsets and Matt Pond all top the list of new bands in the lineup, plus the Noise Pop Film Festival added one more movie. Find out more on the lineup and tickets.

John Gosling is gearing up to release his next installment of his Mekon project. Gosling is also known for his past projects like Psychic TV and Bass-o-Matic, is a longtime staple in both electronic music as well as industrial, experimental, big beat ... you know -- your usual mayhem music.

You're expecting an ordered list, aren't you? I’ve compiled so many end-of-year retrospective lists and frankly I’m sick of ‘top ten’ ranking. But there is nothing wrong with dazzling, and plenty of albums released this year dazzled the pants off me.

The worst of all news for anyone who has seen the Flaming Lips play live ... the massive hands that Wayne Coyne wears that shoot lasers -- were stolen. So this all begs the question ... how do you sell a pair of gian hands with lasers in them?

That incredible Daft Punk / Nile Rodgers collaboration we've been hearing about over the past year looks like it will see the light of day this year. Nile Rodgers took to his blog to say that he's expecting a big year, and that it "won't be boring."

Ceremony, The Fresh and Onlys, Sonny & The Sunsets and Matt Pond all top the list of new bands in the lineup, plus the Noise Pop Film Festival added one more movie. Find out more on the lineup and tickets.

John Gosling is gearing up to release his next installment of his Mekon project. Gosling is also known for his past projects like Psychic TV and Bass-o-Matic, is a longtime staple in both electronic music as well as industrial, experimental, big beat ... you know -- your usual mayhem music.

You're expecting an ordered list, aren't you? I’ve compiled so many end-of-year retrospective lists and frankly I’m sick of ‘top ten’ ranking. But there is nothing wrong with dazzling, and plenty of albums released this year dazzled the pants off me.